Raven

Raven alight upon my ledge Tapping at frosted glass. Barely the handle is turned when you leap inside Transforming into the Night Beauty. You sing and I am yours. I woo you, love you, make you mine You wrap your wings around me and we fly together into the sky. I grasp you close, But my hold is too tight. Your feathers wilt. You call out to the blue sky. I see you at the window again. I open it and you are free. My room is smaller now. I see your feathers upon my pillow. The... Read More

You are now pregnant with oil

Listening to Moulin Rouge’s final scene on YouTube while editing pregnancy test photos is a great multitasking combination.  Earlier during the photo shoot, we didn’t have any urine to drop into the pregnancy test (thank goodness), so we used water which I am coloring yellow in very careful mouse moves.  I’m using Lightroom’s Adjustment Brush which is kind of accurate but it’s difficult to get the yellow color to what I imagine urine in an eye... Read More

Cycles

Life and death, war and peace, being together and living apart all cycle in the nature of the seasons.  Similarly, that pattern belies a deeper truth.  That is, that even though they repeat, things are different each time, with some progression, some regression, every time around.  In war, there may be an attack on a village which is light and militaristic so as to be directed only at the enemy.  Maybe the attacker wants to visit that town later and so does not want to... Read More

Photography Workflow

This may initially look complicated but this is the photography workflow that I currently use including the route from initial captured image, through ingestion and processing, distribution and eventually to archiving. INGESTION: Through Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, images are copied to a working internal hard drive on my PC.  During this “ingesting” stage, I set keywords, add copyright, apply any preset editing and add these images to a subfolder named, “originals”. ... Read More

My Version of Inception

Here are some faces that I drew the other day So, after typing my last post which was about the recent increase in surprises in my life, and after proofing and publishing it, SURPRISE!, only half of the post was published.  Everything I added after previewing the post was deleted forever.  That goes into the, “Bad Surprises,” category of course.  But the more I thought about it, the more I am thinking that it would be better to have the following post appear... Read More

Supplies!

I don’t squeeze my toothpaste tube up from the bottom the way everyone else does because I like there to be some surprises in my life.  Like, “Hey, there’s a whole ‘nother glob of extra toothpaste over here in this part!  Just when I thought I was running out!”  Unfortunately, the most recent surprises in my life aren’t as pleasant.  Recently I was asked to photograph a check presentation at the Chicago Auto Show.  Seemed like a boring... Read More